The north tower of the Golden Gate Bridge, which
is normally illuminated, was darkened in Sausalito, California, on
January 18

If California was a country its economy would rank it sixth after the
US, Japan, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom. There are many reasons
why people want to live there aside from the weather and chief among them
are jobs. That draws people from all over.

The problem that poses for the Greens is that they don't like people,
don't want them causing trees to be cut down to build new homes in which
to live and then expecting to be able to turn on their lights and get
water from their faucets.

People pollute. People are just awful. They drive too many cars. They
don't like to recycle stuff. They want to flush a toilet just once. They
have babies. They want to send their children to schools. People want
to visit "pristine" forests to camp, hunt, fish and hike. They
want to go to the beach and they litter. They want to ski snow-covered
mountains and valleys. They want to get on their off-road vehicles and
drive around the deserts. Or they want to go to the mall and buy lots
of stuff. Stuff is bad.

Some of those people, called farmers, want to grow tons and tons of every
kind of delicious vegetable and fruit imaginable, but they insist on using
herbicides to kill the countless weeds and insecticides to kill the countless
bugs that attack those crops. Then there are the ranchers raising all
that cattle, sheep, and pigs that are slaughtered so people can have their
hamburgers, steaks, lamb chops, ham, and such. Bad as they are, there
are the fishermen who go out and catch tons of fish just so people can
have a tuna sandwich or nibble a tasty lobster or crab.

The worst of the lot are those horrid people who want to drill for oil.
Don't they know it only encourages people to drive their cars, vans, SUV's,
motorcycles or use lawn mowers, snow throwers, and all those other terrible
machines. These people want to drill offshore, too, because there's lots
of oil there. Other people use energy to run their computers. A whole
bunch of them work in California's Silicon Valley just thinking up new
ways to use computers and bandwidths and such.

People are bad. If it weren't for people California would be an Eden,
a paradise, no highways, and just a small bunch of Greens could wander
its forests, deserts, and shores, enjoying it as only they can. One of
them lived in a big, old redwood for a year.

So what does this have to do with California's energy crisis? And what
does this have to do with the United Nation's Kyoto Climate Control Treaty?

Everything!

The Greens-environmentalists-have fought long and hard to keep people
out of California. The scheme they hit upon was to insure there would
not be enough power generation and water utilities. Without that, they
reasoned, people would be discouraged from moving to there. Didn't work.
California is home to 34 million people who need and want power, houses,
schools, hospitals, universities, office facilities, hotels, theme parks,
wineries, warehouses, and every other structure necessary for a modern
society to function.

Now those 34 million people are discovering-the hard way of course-the
result of going along with all the Greens. In Marin County, just across
the Golden Gate bridge, people learned that failing to upgrade their water
facilities resulted in not having any in the kitchens and bathrooms of
their half-million dollar homes. The state government had to step in,
ignoring its own rules, and lay in a "temporary" water line
across the bridge.

So now their statewide utilities are going bankrupt because Greens, socialists
to the core, ignored the simple rules of the market, didn't want to build
sufficient energy generation, preferring to buy it from outside the state.
Those States, however, responding to the rules of supply and demand, starting
charging for what Californians would not provide for themselves.

The best headline of the week reported that, after mining California
for every dollar he could suck into Democratic Party coffers, former President
Clinton told Gov. Gray Davis that Californians were on their own. Now
we hear that the State wants to purchase power and sell it to the utilities
it has rendered financially unstable. It's pure socialism!

The "get rid of the people" program the Greens foisted on California
did force many to leave as jobs disappeared, but not enough because now
there's not only an energy crisis, there's a housing crisis too as nine
of the ten least affordable housing markets can be found in California.

It's not just California that is suffering from lack of energy or sufficient
housing for a nationwide population that grew over thirteen percent in
the passed ten years. In New Jersey, where energy deregulation will soon
hit like an asteroid, trying to find an affordable home is getting nearly
impossible. Housing starts in the most densely populated state are way,
way down. It's a Green dream come true!

The UN Climate Control Treaty would force the United States to cut back
its energy use to 1990 levels! Oh, thank you United Nations. That's just
what we need. Maybe we can force millions of Americans to migrate to Canada
or Mexico! The name of the Green Game is ridding the nation of people
while forcing up the cost of everything people need and use. The Greens
spelled this out in The Wildlands Project (wildlandslandsproject.org),
a plan to rid 50% of the nation's landmass of people so the bunnies and
grizzlies could frolic.

See what happens when you begin to connect all the little Green dots?
See what happens when you begin to ask if "urban sprawl" isn't
just another name for denying people a home in which to live and raise
their family?

See what happens when you ask whether your community should have to shoulder
the costs of a recycling program for stuff that can be much more cheaply
burned in an incinerator or tossed into a big hole in the ground?

See what happens when the ex-president has locked up 60 million acres
of land in which huge deposits of high grade coal exist or billions of
barrels of crude oil waits to be extracted? Or vast deposits of natural
gas?

See what happens when the Clinton administration pushed a plan to tear
down dams that produce millions of watts of hydroelectricity to "save"
some salmon?

See what happens when you buy into these and other Green lies? In California
they have learned it means wondering when the next rolling blackout will
occur.

Alan Caruba is the founder of The National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse
of information about scare campaigns designed to influence public opinion
and policy. The Center maintains an Internet site at www.anxietycenter.com.
Copyright, Alan Caruba, 2001